Casey Halter

    Casey Halter is a writer and strategist living in New York. In 2016, she co-founded Silica Magazine, and is now our editor-in-chief. When not slinging lines in the agency world, she writes for Engadget, SYFY, VICE, Campaign, Bustle, POZ, and others –– examining unexpected waypoints between science, tech, health, and creative expression.

  • How to reverse-engineer a rainforest

    2020 might be the year we all faced a pandemic. But 2019 was the year the earth burned. We are racing to reverse-engineer the rainforest — and like any half-decent architect, we’re going to have to do it from the ground up.

  • Wonders of Wildlife

    Springfield, Missouri -- This story begins in a liquor store. That's where, in 1971, Johnny Morris first launched his Bass Pro Shops fishing and hunting empire, selling lures, bait and tackle amid the bottles of Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's in one of his father's Brown Derby booze shops. It's also where the Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium begins, a monument to American conservation that opened up six months ago in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, calling itself "the world's largest wildlife museum."